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The muscular system of the ovipositor of Spaziphora hydromyzina (Fallén) (Diptera, Scathophagidae)

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The structure of the ovipositor sclerites and muscles was investigated in Spaziphora hydromyzina (Diptera, Scathophagidae).

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Original Russian Text © A.N. Ovchinnikov, O.G. Ovtshinnikova, 2013, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2013, Vol. 92, No. 2, pp. 282–286.

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Ovchinnikov, A.N., Ovtshinnikova, O.G. The muscular system of the ovipositor of Spaziphora hydromyzina (Fallén) (Diptera, Scathophagidae). Entmol. Rev. 93, 987–990 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001387381308006X

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